For the whole chapter:

AskERIC
AskERIC is your gateway to a treasure trove of lesson plans, research, and other resources housed by ERIC, the Educational Resources Information Center.

National Association of State Boards of Education
The "education issues" area of this web site offers access to articles, policy briefs and links on a variety of curriculum and instruction issues. You can also link to state departments of education from this organization's web site.



Curriculum Organization

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
The web site for this professional organization offers access to the journals Educational Leadership and the Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, as well as other curriculum resources.

Block Scheduling
The University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development maintains this web site with a discussion group, research updates, and links to schools that use block scheduling.

Character Education Partnership
This organization has published a set of standards for character education and maintains a thorough resource page with links to articles and other character education web sites.

Lessons Plans Links
In addition to their own collection of lesson plans, the staff at AskERIC have collected this set of links to many of the Internet's major lesson plan sites for teachers.



Issues in Curriculum Development

Education Week
This weekly online publication conducts an annual rating of state assessment programs, and has created a "hot topic" summary of information and web resources on standards.

The Textbook Conundrum
This 2001 report from the Center for Education Reform is subtitled "What are the Children Learning and Who Decides?



Instructional Approaches

Cooperative Learning
The Southwest Educational Development Laboratory created this tutorial on how what cooperative learning is and how it works mainly for an audience of math and science teachers, but it includes helpful descriptions and reading recommendations for all teachers.

Educational Technology
The educational technology area of AskERIC is a handy collection of recent articles and links to publications and organizations dealing with educational technology, selected from the vast resources available about this topic on the World Wide Web.

Foundation for Critical Thinking
This consortium of critical thinking organizations offers products and links to resources on the Web for teaching critical thinking.

Mastery Learning Workshop
This site from Hong Kong Polytechnic University provides a thorough introduction to mastery learning.



Emerging Curriculum Trends

No Child Left Behind
Read President George W. Bush's 2001 plan for education at the U.S. Department of Education's web site.